Game & Fish Denies Ted Turner Ranch New Wolf Permit

posted Jun 27, 2015, 5:47 PM by chloe owens

5/8/15, by Lauren Villagarn, Albuquerque Journal

Game & Fish
denies Ted Turner ranch new wolf permit

New Mexico’s Game and Fish Commission has denied for the
first time a permit that had been in place for 17 years that allowed Ted
Turner’s Ladder Ranch in the Gila mountains to aid the federal Mexican recovery
program. The ranch has provided pen
space for wolves being released into, or temporarily removed from, the wild by
the federal government ever since the program to reintroduce the endangered Mexican
wolf began in 1998…The commission denied Turner’s permit renewal request…is
being viewed by some as a move by the governor-appointed commission to curb
reintroduction of the endangered Mexican gray wolf in New Mexico…the FWS said
that “partnerships between private land owners and federal agencies are
essential to wildlife management and endangered species recovery,” and the
commission’s decision “may hamstring species recovery.”